Froze here last night

I don't blame you Joan...with this much time lost even those that didn't have frost have lost so much time that it's almost pointless to grow anything with a maturity date of more than 60 days. :(( When they say we live in next year country...(sigh).

I can relate...only mine has been the unrelenting monsoons we've been hit with for the last 3 years. Last year, I just gave up and decided that God didn't want me to grow veggies.

This year, I prepared and got about half of my garden in before they hit, and had raised beds and rows that drained. What is there is doing great...I still sink past my ankles in the mud, so I can't plant the rest of it yet. I'm lucky, because I've got over 100 days left till frost and can still plant about anything I want except maybe peanuts and sweet potatoes.

I know the helpless feeling though. It's not fun.

Awe Joan. :( Don't get disgusted. I know it's hard sometimes and you wonder if it is even worthwhile at times. I've almost thrown in the towel a few times too. I spent weeks putting in my front bed, got it nice and then my neighbors uphill decided their veggie garden should go in the rainwater run off ditch. Guess where they diverted the water too? I chased plants down the street for a month. Funny now, but not when it happened. I spent about two years putting in a drought tolerant garden in a spot it is hard to get hoses to. New neighbors moved in downhill and they like to run sprinklers full blast, full spread for hours every NIGHT. Those plants are gone. A couple of years ago my dad was in the hospital, almost died a few times from heart problems and complications, ended up with two amputations, well, we spent a lot of time running to IN. The same neighbor decided to put in a rainwater run off ditch and drain. You guessed it, he started it in my yard so he could get the angle he wanted. He took a trench digger right through a bed of really hard to grow from seed stuff that I had actually grown from seed! LOL I now refer to my efforts as guerilla gardening! It is now not a hobby, but a blasted mission! And know what? I am winning! I know it's a lot different in the zone you are in but don't give up. Any chance a greenhouse is in your future??

Anybody want all these veggie plants?? LOL I'm about to the pitch them or dig a trench and throw them in point! :)

Thanks guys. You all made me laugh and realize that I'm not the only one that's gotten discouraged enough to give up.

I'm doing a bit better now. I think I was really crabby when I wrote my last post. :) Sorry.

Today I mowed the grass, weed eated the edges, filled the bird feeders and weeded and watered some in the flower beds.

DH tilled the veggie garden... between the rows! LOL I don't think he's ready to give up on it yet. Tomorrow I will go to the veggie garden and once again assess the damage and maybe consider replanting some things. Just for DH.

Thanks for being here with me while I vent. I really am doing much better and things are starting to look rosier now that I've accepted that Mother Nature will do what she will do, and I just have to adapt.

JoanJ, sorry that you have had such a cold spring-summer, and lost so many plants. Hope enough surrvive from yours and ones sent to you so that you will have some ripe maters this year. We had 90 to 100 plus degrees all week until last evening. Then Thunder & Lightning, rain, wind most of the night. It is raining again now, but I'm sure not complaining we need every drop of rain. Good luck to you, Donna